Help File

This program is a protoype for a more sophisticated eBay search engine.

My current eBay search program ( http://sliderules.lovett.com/srsearch.html ) displays
only the title of all eBay auctions and allows text searches on these titles.

This prototype stores not only the title of auctions but also the full description and
all pictures (over 5K bytes) provided by the sellers.

The 5K limit was arbitrarily chosen to avoid storing a large number of useless pictures.
Not all pictures over 5K are, of course, valuable and not all pictures less than 5K are
worthless.

The text field of the displayed articles is now clickable and allows the observation of
both the supplied text and the pictures.

Currently only the supplied title is searchable (as with http://sliderules.lovett.com ) but
if this prototype is expanded I will also make the complete discussion searchable.

A massive subset of "slide rules" was chosen for this prototype. Specifically, each week the
forty most expensive auctions for "slide rules" from ebay.com have been archived.

Further, from May 2008, many pictures of winning Curta auctions are made available.

From October 2008, searching of ebay.co.uk and ebay.de was made available.

The actual parameters for searching are identical with those from http://sliderules.lovett.com
and can be read in the Help File associated with that program.

However, perhaps certain searches should be emphasised:

(a) A search string of "." (without the quotes) will display all entries,

(b) A search string of "aug-2008" will display all entries that terminated in August 2008.


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